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The following is a list of awards and nominations received by Cynthia Erivo. She has won a Tony Award, Emmy Award, and a Grammy Award, and received nominations for three Academy Awards. She is one of few artists to receive nominations for the EGOT.
After her theatre debut in the early 2010s, Erivo garnered critical attention with her lead role as Celie, a young woman suffering abuse in the deep south, in the Broadway revival of the musical The Color Purple, being awarded with the Tony Award for Best Actress in a Musical. The role also earned her a Drama Desk Award and Daytime Emmy Award as well as the Grammy Award for Best Musical Theater Album in 2017.[1][2]
In 2018 she transitioned to film acting in Drew Goddard's neo-noir thriller film Bad Times at the El Royale[3] and in Steve McQueen's heist drama Widows.[4] In 2019, Erivo gained national acclaim for portraying slave abolitionist Harriet Tubman in Kasi Lemmons' historical biopic Harriet, which gave her several accolades, including nominations at the Academy Awards, Golden Globe, and the Screen Actors Guild Awards.[5] She also performed and co-wrote with Joshuah Brian Campbell Harriet's lead song "Stand Up", earning a nomination for the Grammy Award for Best Song Written for Visual Media and for Best Original Song at both the Academy Award and the Golden Globe Award.[6]
In 2020 Erivo starred in american miniseries The Outsider, being nominated for the Critics' Choice Television Awards and the Critics' Choice Super Awards.[7] The following year she acted as Aretha Franklin in television series Genius: Aretha, receiving critical acclaim, with nominations at the Primetime Emmy Awards, the Golden Globe Awards, the Satellite Awards and the Screen Actors Guild Awards.[8]
In 2024, Erivo starred in Wicked as Elphaba Thropp, an adaptation of the first half of the stage musical. Erivo garnered critical acclaim for the role and was subsequently nominated for the Academy Award, BAFTA Award, Critics' Choice Movie Award, Golden Globe Award and Screen Actors Guild Award for Best Actress. With her Academy Award nomination, Erivo joined actress Viola Davis as the second black actress to be nominated multiple times for the Academy Award for Best Actress.
- ^ Soloski, Alexis (11 December 2015). "The Color Purple review – Jennifer Hudson and Cynthia Erivo star in stripped-down musical". The Guardian. Retrieved 23 January 2022.
- ^ Villarreal, Yvonne (13 February 2017). "'The Color Purple' cast album wins Grammy". Los Angeles Times. Retrieved 23 January 2022.
- ^ Marotta, Jenna (24 September 2018). "Fox Heavy Hitters Celebrate Drew Goddard's 'Bad Times at the El Royale'". The Hollywood Reporter. Retrieved 23 January 2022.
- ^ Lattanzio, Ryan (31 October 2019). "Cynthia Erivo Says 'Widows' Tanked Because Audiences Misunderstood Its 'Messy' Charm". IndieWire. Retrieved 23 January 2022.
- ^ Rose, Steve (22 November 2019). "How Cynthia Erivo took the US by storm – with a little help from Aretha and Oprah". The Guardian. Retrieved 23 January 2022.
- ^ Martoccio, Angie (10 February 2020). "Cynthia Erivo Performed 'Stand Up' at the Oscars Backed by Gospel Singers". Rolling Stone. Retrieved 23 January 2022.
- ^ Ramos, Dino-Ray (15 January 2020). "'The Outsider's Cynthia Erivo Responds To Stephen King's Diversity Comments; Bateman And Price Talk Challenges Adapting Horror Author's Work – TCA". Deadline. Retrieved 23 January 2022.
- ^ Stevens, Matt (13 July 2021). "Cynthia Erivo of 'Genius: Aretha,' on Playing the Queen of Soul". The New York Times. ISSN 0362-4331. Retrieved 23 January 2022.